#bonus points if you cite philosophers and theorists and poets!!!

[slowtides]

Poets and political philosophers alike (such as Richard Siken and Karl Marx) have posited that romantic love must be mutual to be love, and that unrequited love or love that is not returned, is not love but something else. Siken claims it is desire, and Marx calls it an impotent misfortune. Others have weighed in as well with varied and conflicting perspectives, from bell hooks to Erich Fromm. But what does tumblr think?

#I'm curious as to people's thoughts on this. #if you want to give me a bigger sample size pls reblog #regardless of your answer pls explain your reasoning in the replies or tags #bonus points if you cite philosophers and theorists and poets!!! #please theorize about love in the replies and tags